A serious motorcycle accident and a BMW in flames caused chaos on the A8 near Dachau.
The A8 had to be closed in both directions.
A long traffic jam in rush hour traffic was the result.
Sulzemoos
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The Fürstenfeldbruck traffic police reported:
On Monday afternoon around 4 p.m. on the A8 in the direction of Augsburg near Sulzemoos, a motorcyclist stumbled for an unknown reason and fell without any external influence.
According to several witnesses, he drove in the middle of the three lanes at around 140 km / h.
His Harley began to lurch as he tried to pull in behind a truck to the right.
Serious motorcycle accident on A8: Harley driver is seriously injured on hard shoulder
Finally he fell in the right lane and was seriously injured on the hard shoulder.
The 56-year-old driver from the Schrobenhausen area suffered life-threatening head injuries and was flown to an Augsburg clinic by an emergency helicopter that had been alerted.
The Sulzemoos, Wiedenzhausen and Odelzhausen fire departments were deployed in the accident.
A8 in the Dachau district: BMW suddenly goes up in flames
This then got to do on the opposite lane towards Munich, when the BMW of a Munich driver initially reported a defect.
When the driver stopped his car on the hard shoulder, flames were already breaking out of the engine compartment.
He and his passenger were able to leave the vehicle unharmed, but the vehicle burned out completely.
The Adelzhausen fire brigade and the Autobahn-Service-Gesellschaft were also informed about this.
Chaos on the A8 near Sulzemoos: Kilometers of traffic jam in both directions
Both the motorcycle accident and the vehicle fire resulted in closures and long traffic jams.
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